ZIONWORKS NEWS for AUGUST 15th, 2025

 

ZIONWORKS NEWS for AUGUST 15th, 2025                                              WHILE WE’RE HERE…       What are your earliest childhood memories? Do you remember going through attitude adjustments from responsible parents or learned through interacting with your peers or others? Do you remember struggling with math concepts or problems, then making a revelatory breakthrough? Do you remember the thought that the math solution was already there, but that your thinking process had just made a small jump of higher reasoning? Do you remember all of the rewarding jumps in brain power and reasoning power during your school years, and well beyond? How many times along this journey have you found yourself without answers or solutions and have found yourself unequal to a task or challenge, even though you have tried with all of your thinking power? Do you experience these frustrating, agonizing, even heart-breaking and tragic situations that you must solve, but can’t? And even with faith fully applied, the solution doesn’t happen?     There are times when our faith, resourcefulness and earnest energy seem to fall far short of the resourcefulness needed. There are just times like that…when we know that God has solutions and we don’t. Many people suffer quietly for a lifetime with physical and relational agony and with the heavy burdens of others. When we become aware of their suffering and their perseverance, we call them saints or heroes, and they are. We suffer with them, pray for them, help out if we can and wonder why our burdens are lighter than theirs. Instead of losing our faith in our loving Creator, we pray harder, knowing he has eternal answers because he is all-seeing and all-loving. But the agony remains for us because God has given us hearts to feel and know another’s pain and torture.      We are still children, we’re still making mistakes, we’re still trying to learn life’s and eternity’s lessons, still haven’t arrived at perfection because it is a life-long journey, a life-long endeavor. Thank you, God, that we can forgive and be forgiven. Thank you for the vision and hope that you place before us. Thank you for your love that we can see in others and share with others. Please perfect our vision of the Kingdom and all of our duties, responsibilities, joys and privileges.     Thousands or more people have journeyed to eternal realms through injuries, fatal disease or dreams or visions and returned here, and have been guided by Jesus or angels and have been told that suffering on this earthly realm is for a purpose and that its length is forgotten once a soul has graduated from here. The universe contains (even though the universe cannot be contained) all of the marvels and mysteries of creation, of God’s love, all dynamic science, all dynamic physics, all of God’s intelligence, all beauty ,all of man’s God-given love, intelligence and creativity, all intelligent interaction and is the source of all language, literature and all inquisitiveness and all creative power. Its remarkable wonders have no end. One wonders: during a soul’s eternal discovery of the universe, could that soul see and understand it all? One wonders if the earth-bound or beyond-the-veil imagination has bounds. Imagine if the universe were globe-shaped (no one knows) and could be shrunken to the size of the earth, just so we could imagine it being examined by a thousand individuals. These individuals could be placed in various places above the “surface”, on the “surface” and various places within the sphere for a few minutes of eternity-time, and report, as best as possible, what they could verbalize. It is impossible to imagine the variety of what each of them saw… probably entirely different from what the others apprehended, yet each knowing the eternal wonders they saw were only a tiny fraction of what eternity holds. Awesome! As the scriptures say, “unsearchable”.     In our very best efforts to know and lovingly apply the truth, we can’t see the whole eternal picture; but remarkably, Jesus can; and remarkably, his work will get done through our entire and best efforts to surrender to him. That fact is an eternal wonder. Our individual surrender to Him draws us together as one, seeing eye-to- eye, sometimes sharing the same vision, though we inevitably have varying perspectives. How this works out is possibly beyond human reasoning, yet it is a fact of eternity. Thank you, Creator, for placing us in this earthly realm while we learn all we can, while we can make this place heaven on earth as you have asked us to, and with the wonders of eternity at our door!                                      ----------------------------------------------------       Since this small, yet growing, group that calls itself “Zionworks” gathered in work and worship in late 2021, Jesus has been trying to teach us of the power and responsibility of the individual, unhindered by dogma of culture and religion to do any and all work to make His kingdom on earth a living, breathing reality. This in no way negates or disrespects the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. It can only augment it and bring it to its shining and operating example for the world to see. We know that no unclean thing can enter into the kingdom of heaven, so also, His kingdom on the earth must be His clean and holy place. This is absolutely the happiest prospect for any and all of Jesus’ pure in heart of the world. He knows who they are, where they are and what their sufferings, trials and hopes are. He tells us that all who are engaged in the building of Zion in the last days will have the gift and power of the Holy Spirit. He also tells us that those who will fight against Zion in the last days will be swept off of the face of the earth. We have been placed here at this time. What an incredible time and incredible opportunity! Take it personally and take it seriously; God doesn’t deal in false promises.                                   -------------------------------------------------------------                                                         ANNOUNCEMENTS     Dean Evatt raises and sells lambs and sheep for meat. He and his wife also have recipes. Local. Call him at 816 263 7763.       Work Day last Saturday at Joel and Kathy Adams. Fabulous fun, fellowship, heat and mosquitoes while picking and sorting berries. Unforgettable for the few that showed up.       Last Monday night, Howard Cozart texted this informative and timely video for us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG4TwSgVrAU                                 -------------------------------------------------------------                                                            CALENDAR  Next Zionworks meeting: this coming Sunday, August 17th at 2:00 PM at Central Branch, 919 S. Delaware, Independence. On the agenda: All that we will respond with to meet Christ’s call and instructions for the reality of his kingdom on the earth. Much planning, fellowship and discussion.     At last week’s meeting, there was a very close-to-the-heart discussion among attendees candidly sharing their devotion to the Lord and their desire to please him. It was precious and is still on my mind and heart.    Work Day: Next Saturday, August 23rd at Central Branch. We will meet at 9:30 AM to clean floors, etc., tidy up and make small repairs. We should be done before lunch.                                    -------------------------------------------------------     Your questions and comments are welcome at zionworkz@protonmail.com and yyeoman@protonmail.com .                                           With Christ and his love as our bond,                                           Your friends at Zionworks